An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 340
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- Deorees of Assent.
- BOOk NV
- donnares in chose parts oP the Creation, that are beneath Man, the Rule
- O Analoey may makieit probable, chat it is lo allo in Thinos above us,
- andour Obserration; andthat chere are leveral rants ot intelligent Beines,
- excellins us in several desrees of Perfection, alcendine upvards torards
- theintinite Perfection of the Creator, by gentle seps andditterences, tMat
- are evers one at no great distance trom thenext to it. This Pore ofProbabi-
- liry, erhich is the best conduct os rationa l Experiments, and the rise of Isy-
- Pothesis has also irs se and Inctuence: and a varr Realonins from Analo
- 3y leacs us olten intothe discoverr of Truchs, and uletul Produccions,
- rhich trould ocherrile lie concealed.
- G. 13. Thouoh the common Experience, and the ordinary Courle ol
- Thinss have justlr a mistur Instuence on the Minds oF Men, to make
- them sire or retuse Credit to ans ching proposed to cheir Beliet; yet eliere
- is one Case, Wherein the strangenels ot the Fact lessens not tho AAenL 10
- 2 Fair Festimony siven oP it. For Wtiere such supernatural Fvens are
- suitable eo enes aim d at by hirm, wrho has the Porver to chance the course
- OfWature, chere, under suchi Circumstances, ther maz De the Atter eo pro-
- cure. Beliet, by hoi much chemore they are berond, or contrary to ordi-
- nary Observotion. This is the prover Case of Miracles, Which vell ar-
- tested, do not only tind Credir themselres; but sive it allo to other
- Truttis, erhich necd such Contirmation.
- 5. T. J. Besides those ve have hitherto montioned, there is One TOPE OE
- Propolitions that challense the hishest degree of our ABent, uxon baro
- Teltimonr, Whether thethine propoled, acree or dilagree ithcommon
- Experience, and the ordinary course of Things, Or no. Th ReaIOM
- erhereot is, because the Testimons is of such an onc, as cannot deceive,
- nor De deceired, and that is ot CFod himselF. This carries ith it Cerrain-
- ey berond Douhe, Lvidence berond exception. Thisis called by a pe.
- culiarName, Revelation, and our AMenEtOit, Faith: Wvhich has as much
- Cerrainier as our Rnoledse it selt; and We maz as ell doube of our
- oirn Beins, 25 Wre can irhecher any Rerclation from COD BC true.
- So tMat Paith is a setled and sure Principlo of AssenE and ANurance, and
- leares no manner oF rOOM FOr DOuBE Or Felitation: Only re must be
- Ture that it be a dirine Revelation, and that e understand it rigHE; else
- re all expose our selres ro all the Extravasanes of Enchulialm, and all
- the Error os vrrong Principles, il ve have F’aith and Alturance in erhat is
- noc divine Revelation. And cheresore in thole Cases, our APent ean bC
- rationallr no hrioher chan the E vidence ot its beine a Revelation, and thae
- ehis is tlie meanins of the Fixprestions it is delivered in. IF the Lvidence ol
- its beino a Revelation, Or thaxthisits true sense be only on probable Proots,
- our Asent can reach no higher than an Acturance or Distidence, aritine
- tromthe more, or lels apparene Probabilier ot the Prools. Bur OE Faict,
- and the Precedener it ougHE EO hare BCFOrO OtHer AGUMENES OF POrIV.
- TIOn, TCaII spealemore hercaster, Where I treat oFit, 2s it is ordinarils
- Placed, in contradistinction to Rcason: though in Truth, it be nochins
- clse but an ANent sounded on thc hislieti Rcalon.
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 340. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0356?run=74